[RELEASE] Diaspora: Shattered Armistice v1.0 (Windows, Mac & Linux)

After more than 4 years of development, the Diaspora Development team are proud to release our game for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux (FreeBSD has also been reported to work, read this post then see here for details).

BackgroundIt has been 40 years since the devastating war between the Colonials and the Cylons. 40 years where no one has seen or heard of the Cylons. 40 years where the armistice has held.

Game Features

Fly the MK VII Viper, the Raptor or the new MK VIIe strike variant.

Take part in furious battles against Cylon forces.

Play multiplayer missions against your friends as Colonial or Cylon forces.

Completely voice acted throughout.

Original soundtrack inspired by the show

Create your own missions and share them with the included mission editor.

Due to the size of the Windows installer it may take a long time for the installer to actually start. This may last several minutes (up to five minutes in some instances). There are reports that virus checkers may extend this delay so you may wish to turn them off during the installation process. This problem hasn't been reported yet for Mac but might exist there too.

Multiplayer is currently very much in beta. Also, in order to enhance the eventual multiplayer experience, the team decided not to finalise the balance between ships. Feedback from players is very welcome. The true multiplayer experience will be available in the next release. Till then, if you wish to experiment, here's how to get started.

Some Windows users are reporting issues with joystick detection in-game. Going to Control Panel -> Game Controllers and selecting "Advanced" then setting your controller as the preferred device, has been reported to fix this.

Simply download the installer and run it. The Installer will guide you through installing the game.

Mac OS X

Mount Diaspora.dmg, and follow instructions within to copy Diaspora to the Applications folder.

Note: Before you play for the first time (only need to do this once), please double click on RUN_ME_ONCE.command to install the most appropriate graphics settings.

Double click on wxlauncher, and press Play, located in the bottom right corner.

Linux (Source Only)

(Sorry, but no one on the team has the time or expertise needed to make native Linux packages. We're hoping that each distro's community will be able to find people willing to maintain packages for their distro.)

First, open a terminal and change to the directory where you downloaded Diaspora.

Then follow the instructions in Diaspora_R1_Linux/Diaspora/README.txt, with one correction: after you start the launcher in step 5, select your screen resolution from the drop down box in the Basic Settings tab before you press Play. Otherwise, you'll be running in 1024x768.

Downloads

After downloading the actual game and installing it, you should run the patch below as this solves quite a few issues with the game.

Torrents

Simply download the torrent file for your platform and open in any compatible torrent program. If you don't have a torrent program, you can try µTorrent for Windows and Mac, or Transmission for Mac and Linux. After downloading, please leave your torrent program running so that others can also download from you.

Patch 1.1.1 is a minor patch which fixes a couple of small errors that 1.1 introduced. Install it after 1.1.

Soundtrack

During the time we've spent developing Diaspora, we have frequently been asked which songs from the show we've used in our trailers. The fact is that almost all the music in the game or trailers has been original. So for that reason, we're also releasing the soundtrack. You can find details on it here.

Spreading The News

If you're going to post on other sites about Diaspora, you should find this useful. It's a selection of Diaspora screenshots (available elsewhere on this site) and and a BBCode versions of this announcement (so that you don't have to register in order to get the BBCode)

Join The TeamWe are looking for people to join our team. R1 has proved that we can deliver, you won't be joining a team that never releases anything. R1 also proved we need more staff in order to be able to release quickly. If you have the skills to join us (Coding, mission design, 3D modelling and texturing, etc) please look at the this list of people we need.

To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow. - Metrodorus of ChiosI wept. Mysterious forces beyond my ken had reached into my beautiful mission and energized its pilots with inhuman bomb-firing abilities. I could only imagine the GTVA warriors giving a mighty KIAAIIIIIII shout as they worked their triggers, their biceps bulging with sinew after years of Ivan Drago-esque steroid therapy and weight training. - General Battuta

Re: [RELEASE] Diaspora: Shattered Armistice

is this for real? just so?is this the full release? or a demo? how many missions? did i miss all this information somewhere?do i ask to many questions?

Just so This is the full first release. It isn't exactly the longest campaign ever released but what it lacks in length it makes up for in quality. At least that's the line I've heard from women before, but I digress. As for how many missions, play and find out